Operation Azorian was the largest and most expensive covert mission in history, a multi-million-dollar CIA plot to secretly ...

In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of a Soviet submarine that had sunk deep in the Pacific. To keep the ...

USS Halibut began life as a Regulus cruise-missile submarine, but its real legacy came after a radical refit turned it into a ...

In 1974, the United States attempted to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet, in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. The submarine had been lost in March 1968. The operation to ...

Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved... 'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet ...

There are a lot of numbers in the historical documentary “Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” all of them impressive: one 2,000-ton Soviet submarine; 98 dead sailors; three nuclear missiles; three miles below ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: After a painstaking search and more than twenty thousand photos, Halibut’s crew discovered the ill-fated Soviet sub’s wreckage. As a result Halibut and her crew were ...

One of the most unusual submarines of the Cold War was named after one of the most unusual fish in the sea. Halibut are flatfish, bottom-dwelling predators that, unlike conventional fish, lie sideways ...

In 1968 — the middle of the Cold War — the Soviet submarine K-129 disappeared, taking with it its 98-member crew, three nuclear ballistic missiles and a tempting treasure trove of Soviet secrets.